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Hey, wrong thread for sexy auras!  /j  ;)

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Not a line, but I’m not starting another thread 

Images from something else that look like they could be from Taskmaster.

(How serendipitous then for the next post to be inspired by Alex Horne!)

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I *might* have watched BtE when broadcast before my friend officially introduced me to Red Dwarf and we watched it from the start on DVD.  If that’s the case then I score a bonus 9 but I can’t be sure!  I recall it ringing a bell once we reached it in our watchthrough though.  So my score is either 13, for episode 1 of each series, or 22 if BtE was my first.

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09/08/2026 

For the first time in a VERY long time I have remembered to play on two consecutive days!  So I technically have a streak again, 2.

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Not even free time, I’m stuck in bed most of the time so I have plenty of that. I just think younger brains take to watching the same things over and over better than older ones. Same with most things: toys, albums, books. I get bored of stuff as an adult in a way I didn’t when I was a kid.

I’m no longer stuck in bed but I’m still stuck upstairs *on* my bed most of the time, and I’m the opposite with rewatches.  It takes me a lot to watch something new and if I like something I will rewatch it to death.  I’ve always been like that though, regardless of free time or level or health. 

Weirdly though I don’t think I’ve watched Red Dwarf since the rewatch for the last community poll; it might have been not long after that that I found Taskmaster and the extended Horneiverse and that has occupied a lot of my brain. 

(Also finding out CB held such insulting views didn’t help – it sounds pathetic and maybe it is but I consciously didn’t watch for a while because I didn’t want it tarnished by my disappointment and other emotions at the time.  I’ve been able to watch a bit of The Brittas Empire fairly recently and that’s been okay, I’ve just not felt like watching Red Dwarf just yet.)

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RIP Kevin Keegan.

Oh :( 

(Turns out here and BlueSky really are where I get my news.)

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And not so random, but serendipitous:

Serendipitous on the home page:

Also a serendipitous frame and thus had to be done:

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Discovery series 1 was when I learned the meaning of ‘hate watching’ – I went into it in good faith, expecting to enjoy it, hated it, but felt compelled to keep watching to find out the answer to the mystery.  Never again.

Picard, I went into with mid expectations, expecting it to be on the positive side of neutral and hoping to enjoy it but also aware that I might not.  I watched it all, but did not enjoy it enough to rewatch.  Which is possibly more damning than actively hating it.  There were bits I hated, bits I enjoyed, and overall I just … don’t care.  None of it stuck with me (apart from the brutal way they killed a particular character) despite me having great affection for the characters in their original eras.

Lower Decks I really love, it’s just fun fan service with Star Trek plots, and all the easter eggs make it feel lovingly done to me.  I can see why it might not be for everyone but goodness me it was a welcome return to watching something that did actually feel like Trek.

Strange New Worlds feels like an updated classic Trek, with ~feelings~.  It hasn’t quite gripped me in the same way that TNG, VOY and DS9 did and I haven’t fallen in love with any of the characters, but I do really enjoy watching it and appreciate the plots feeling like Trek.  To me it truly feels like Trek for the modern world.  There’s some intrigue and plenty of threads weaving through, but it’s also episodic enough that each episode is satisfactory.  (Not like Picard which just strung us along for the whole first ten episodes 😒)  

Oh I did also watch the first series of Prodigy, which had a lot of heart.  I thought it must be fantastic for its intended audience.  I’ve not been in the right mindset to rewatch and catch up with the second series yet, but not for anything wrong with it.  It’s different and probably not for everyone but I’m so glad it exists.

I miss seeing people with natural teeth though!  Last time I rewatched TNG, along with the slower pace, that struck me – everyone had perfectly nice, natural teeth without needing Hollywood Smiles.

(I haven’t watched the reboot films.)

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 Edit: actually I might be mixing my memories up between Inspector Morse and one of the 90s BBC shows in which Patricia Routlege played the lead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetty_Wainthropp_Investigates
Assuming you also mean a detective show. Hyacinth as a detective sounds like an interesting watch.

I’ve been watching both Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Keeping Up Appearances in the last few months, so could be from either or both  :)  Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is interesting as something of a 90s time capsule as well as the mystery solving aspect.  It has a lot of heart, really highly recommend it.

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I suspect multiple prop designers just independently enjoyed the alliteration.

Ahhh, right that makes sense.  So many other brands we see in it are real so I just assumed everything was.  (Perhaps they’d have had to license showing branded alcohol, or something.  (I’ve no idea if the cigarette brands we occasionally see are real or not.))

Edit: actually I might be mixing my memories up between Inspector Morse and one of the 90s BBC shows in which Patricia Routlege played the lead.  I recall being surprised at seeing so many brand names on the Beeb.  I don’t know, stoopid brain.

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What was the context Runaway? Just the name, did you see a bottle or can?

Morse was being offered a drink, lager or orange juice, and I saw the can.  Hang on …

Right, edited to include a screenshot

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Yeah, Rimmer and the extension cords was the highlight of the special for me. We’ve had Rimmer powering off before, but this was a funny and nightmarish new take on how being a hologram sucks.

It also happened to be a good illustration of trying to live with energy-limiting chronic illness.  It’s not a perfect analogy, but the physical restrictions, constantly having to be mindful of your energy level lest you drop too low (collapse / crash) and the impact of it all on trying to function in daily life is something people without energy-limiting conditions don’t tend to understand.  The overall vibe was very relatable.

(What I wouldn’t give to be as functional as low-power Rimmer again though!)

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Ah, I think it was the JMC branding that made me assume it can’t possibly have been a real-world brand.  Shame it didn’t taste good!

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Late to the thread but once I learned what torrenting was, I stopped, back in the Limewire days.  But I only used it for classical music, which I think was too nerdy for people to bother using them as a vehicle for viruses!

I do pirate stream though.  I believe in supporting artists and creators but I’m not shelling out for streaming services that are each getting to be more expensive than a TV licence because they keep upping the price for a worse service.

Digital copies plus owning a physical copy are my preference.  Digital for convenience, physical for a sort of security.  Streaming is usually reliable but those times it’s not (power cut, service outage, lack of signal) are a real annoyance.

Online there seems to be a pushback against streaming gouging people more and more, and never any options to truly buy and own digital copies of things (always with DRM and needing the right app/software), so for a while yet I’m sure CEX will be fine.

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Leopard Lager in Inspector Morse!  S5E2, right near the end.  Did you guys know it was a real brand?

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There’s a reference to James Last in As Time Goes By, S1E3.  (Context: lamenting societal presumptions – “A woman passes 50 and her idea of sexual activity is supposed to be soaking her feet and listening to James Last.”)

Just mentioning it here because Red Dwarf is the only other time I’ve heard of him, and didn’t know where else to put it.

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ChatGPT it surely?

Steady on, they couldn’t risk being seen to endorse that kind of behaviour.

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Missed a couple of days 🙄

23/02/2026 

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20/02/2026 

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19/02/2026 

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18/02/2026 

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 18/02/2026 

Demons & Angels, backwards down the Reds

I almost guessed D&A too.  (And did the same as you with the Reds.)

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17/02/2026 

2

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I prefer Rimmer’s oily series X hair over the XI/XII wig

Me too!

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16/02/2026 

1 (missed a day, again!)

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I enjoyed that, very much!

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14/02/2026 

2

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Missed a day, oops

13/02/2026 

1

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11/02/2026 

3

That was frustrating

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10/02/2026 

2

Had no idea (clearly!) until it clicked.

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09/02/2026 

1

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08/02/2026 

Well that’s annoying.  (Parallel Universe, Bodyswap were the two wrong series guesses.)

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07/02/2026 

6

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Oh that’s sad news.  What a guy.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 06/02/2026 

6, surprised at everybody else tbh

Oh hush.  :P

06/02/2026 

5

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05/02/2026 

4

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04/02/2026 

3

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03/02/2026 

2

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02/02/2026 

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I failed but the page glitched and just gave me a blank grey box without telling me the episode or results to copy.

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This’ll make everyone feel better about their efforts

31/01/2026 

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30/01/2026 

2 (I forgot to post yesterday’s, and ereyesterday forgot to do Smegle)

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27/01/2026 

3, I think

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26/01/2026 

2

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Well that was part of the thing about DS9, the Federation had joint control of the station but it was still owned by the Bajorans, who weren’t in the Federation. 

That’s interesting, I knew they weren’t in the Federation but I thought (assumed) Bajor was broadly post-capitalist too.  Not the space station itself of course, I didn’t miss all the references to shops … I’ve never entirely understood how Federation members managed with the shops, but I guess I assumed however they did it, the Bajorans did the same too.

Hmm.

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25/01/2026 

1

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24/01/2026 

TPL, if I’d got the series first I would have got it.  (But I couldn’t work out what I was looking at until the reveal.)

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23/01/2026 

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No one ever gets so excited about The Jetsons references…

THANK you that was really annoying me not being able to place it.

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22/01/2026 

Hmph.

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21/01/2026 

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